• socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
    13 hours

    Excuse me, but I’m going to need you to elaborate on your sensory depravation kink.

  • Godort@lemmy.ca
    13 hours

    It definitely depends on the rules of the experiment.

    What constitutes “entertainment”? (ie: is this something like “no electronics, no books” or is it more like solitary confinement, with no items of any kind?)

    Do I get to know the time of day? One of the main challenges of a situation like this is maintaining circadian rhythm.

    What is the expected duration of the experiment? There is a big difference between spending 24 hours in this vs. 24 months.

    What is the food and water situation?

  • Iconoclast@feddit.uk
    13 hours

    That depends on how long I’d need to be there. I believe that solitary confinement pretty reliably makes people lose their minds given enough time. Few hours I can easily spend just meditating but if we’re speaking days then I’d be getting pretty damn bored.

    Also, what?

    I have a consensual arrangement like this with a guy, and surprisingly, he seems to be handling it pretty well after two weeks.

  • marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today
    13 hours

    I learned meditation and dis-associative day dreaming for the inevitable day that my politics are a little too radical and I’m thrown in prison. Between that and exercise (assuming food and water are allowed) I’d personally be fine for a few months. After that though your mind physically starts to eat itself in isolation so… probably not great.

  • Okokimup@lemmy.world
    12 hours

    My grandfather is 97 and in a nursing home. He can’t do anything by himself anymore, including using the TV remote. So sometimes when family visits, he’s just sitting there with absolutely nothing going on. He could look out the window and watch the birds, but I don’t think that interests him. I’m OK with just my thoughts, but only if I’m thinking about something in the future (like a painting I want to make). I don’t know if I could handle his life. He seems to be content as long as he’s not in pain.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    13 hours

    I don’t use a smartphone. I like taking time to be present whenever im on the train or in a waiting room or such.

  • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world
    13 hours

    Me when I was six and refused to do my homework. Granted I got breaks to go to school but I lasted about 2 weeks of just sitting in my room with nothing but a mattress in all my free time, idk if I’d be better or worse at it these days lol

    • Z745812939054@lemmy.zip
      13 hours

      “we are here today doing what we do because boredom has guided us toward greater and greater challenges and bigger and more complex brains”

      i’m no evolutionary psychologist, but come on… humans evolved bigger brains because we were bored? and yet no other species in the history of the planet has been “bored” enough to evolve intelligence?

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
    13 hours

    I’ve already done this. I decided one day i would do nothing. Not ‘nothing’ like play on my phone or watch TV. Actually nothing. I sat on the floor for the whole day. No day dreaming. I could meditate if i wanted, or just sit. It was a valuable experience. I learned what minutes and hours were. Quite exhausting.

    So many people can’t just do nothing. That’s the source of many problems. If you haven’t done this, then you should do it. It will improve the quality of many days in the future.

  • SGforce@lemmy.ca
    13 hours

    Are there things in the room? As long as there is, I can make stuff and entertain myself.